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I have slackware 10 installed on my old p3 machine. It was working fine. but now there are two problems:
1. the sound is unreliable. Sometimes I can play music files. ANd other times I cannot. So I do a restart and the sound is back on.
2. Whenever I do a shutdown. (either through menu pr with shutdown -h now) it reaches the stage where it says powerdown (- but it doesnt' say -- it is safe to turn off your comptuer) it used to automatically shut the computer, but now I have to press the powerbutton , which results in the computer restarting.
any solutions?
thanks
1) When it starts to be unrealiabe? It just simply happens?
it just simply happens. one time i boot in the sound is working, next time i boot the sound is not working. This has led me to do the following. Whenever i start and login, the first thing i do is go to the control center (KDE) and check the sound settings. if the sound card seems to tbe workign then I start my other work. Other wise I restart and do the same process till i get the sound working.
2) You said, "it used to" what do you mean? did you changed your kernel? Try modprobe apm
No i haven't changed my kernel. the only thing i've done is add install instead of lilo, and add dropline gnome. It used to shutdown fine a couple of days before.
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